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Estonia, a member of the European Union and the eurozone since 2004, has a modern market-based economy and one of the higher per capita income levels in Central Europe and the Baltic region. Estonia's successive governments have pursued a free market, pro-business economic agenda and have wavered little in their commitment to pro-market reforms. The current government has followed sound fiscal policies that have resulted in balanced budgets and low public debt. The economy benefits from strong electronics and telecommunications sectors and strong trade ties with Finland, Sweden, Russia, and Germany. Estonia's economy fell into recession in mid-2008, as a result of an investment and consumption slump following the bursting of the real estate market bubble and a decrease in export demand as result of economic slowdown in the rest of Europe, but the economy has recovered strongly in the last five years. Growth was expected to top 2% in 2014, before the events in Ukraine. Estonia adopted the euro on 1 January 2011. [...] more

Trian asked that DuPont use a universal proxy card at its 2014 annual shareholder meeting this spring, potentially allowing for rank and file shareholders to vote for its board nominees even if they wanted to support many of the company’s board nominees. read »

Social is going vertical. Even for CMOs. Techcrunch reported on “The Rise Of The ‘Social Professional’ Networks” last June, and we’ve seen the increasing popularity of social networks for doctors with Doximity, for software engineers with GitHub, and for mechanical engineers with GrabCAD. But we’ve been lacking a read »

Earlier today, Forbes contributor Larry Husten was first to report that Orexigen had released glowingly positive, but preliminary, cardiovascular data from a study of its obesity drug, Contrave, against the wishes of the study’s lead investigator, potentially endangering the final result of the trial. The Food and Drug read »

On the heels of my post describing an awesome new Millennium Falcon drone, we now have TIE Interceptor drones from the same creator. From my viewpoint, this is cooler than the Millennium Falcon (contra Anthony Domanico’s views), but these are just degrees of awesome. For me, I pretty much want everything this guy makes. read »

Kelle Barfield is Entergy Corporation vice president of integrated communications. In addition to overseeing communication in support of the company’s sustainability initiatives, her team is responsible for corporate branding, advertising, digital media, internal communications and corporate event planning. Barfield began her Entergy career at read »

The 2015 MLS season will be filled with new beginnings. As the league sets to celebrate its 20th season, it will also welcome the expansion franchises of Orlando City SC and New York City FC. The two teams officially square off for the first time this Sunday, which will be the first of two games exclusively broadcast on Sky Sports. The upcoming read »

Orexigen’s failure to keep a lid on a key safety analysis of its obesity drug Contrave led the Food and Drug Administration to force it to do a second study in order to prove that the medicine is safe for the heart.

The FDA made the decision even before Orexigen disclosed data from the study, called LIGHT, in a patent filing earlier read »

Lisa Mann joined Kind Healthy Snacks in January, assuming the role of executive VP of marketing. She joined from Mondelez International, where she most recently had been senior VP of the global gum category. Prior to that, she was VP of cookies—and the marketer behind the now-famous ‘Oreo Tweet.’

Listed investments have been tracking oil prices lately, even businesses that have nothing to do with oil prices. Have a look at US alternative energy stocks, shares in companies that compete with coal and gas, not oil. That is because the listed markets often move together, whether that makes sense or not. Many investors look to alternative read »

The box that has housed the Wu-Tang Clan’s secret album for much of the past year recently arrived at MoMA PS1 in Queens, carried by a white-gloved porter and flanked by security guards–but it almost didn’t make it through customs. read »

With just around 20 games remaining in the NHL regular season, there’s still a lot to be determined for playoff seeding, and much great hockey to be played. For NHL fans that claim there’s nothing better than playoff hockey, the sport is approaching their apex as teams jockey for playoff positioning.

SanDisk is best known for two things: firstly for making all those SD cards and USB keys that we consumers use and secondly for being a manufacturer of raw flash storage that other companies then build into storage platforms. Indeed just last week Solidfire announced a new all-flash storage appliance that leveraged SanDisk flash.